Andreas Willwohl is one of the leading violists of his generation. He trained with Professor Alfred Lipka
at the Universities of Musik “Franz Liszt“ in Weimar, and “Hanns Eisler“ in Berlin; he also received
valuable artistic counsel from renowned musicians including Wilfried Strehle, Norbert Brainin, Eberhard
Feltz, Kim Kashkashian, and the members of the Alban Berg Quartet.
He was a prizewinner at the
Concours International de Bordeaux (2002) and at the Salzburg Mozarteum Summer Academy, and
was awarded study grants by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and the Yehudi Menuhin Live
Music Now Foundation in Berlin.
As a viola virtuoso and chamber music partner, Andreas Willwohl has appeared at a number of international
festivals including Salzburg, Schubertiade, Schleswig-Holstein and Bogotá; he played with
colleagues including Johannes Moser, Julian Steckel, Wolfgang...
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Andreas Willwohl is one of the leading violists of his generation. He trained with Professor Alfred Lipka
at the Universities of Musik “Franz Liszt“ in Weimar, and “Hanns Eisler“ in Berlin; he also received
valuable artistic counsel from renowned musicians including Wilfried Strehle, Norbert Brainin, Eberhard
Feltz, Kim Kashkashian, and the members of the Alban Berg Quartet.
He was a prizewinner at the
Concours International de Bordeaux (2002) and at the Salzburg Mozarteum Summer Academy, and
was awarded study grants by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and the Yehudi Menuhin Live
Music Now Foundation in Berlin.
As a viola virtuoso and chamber music partner, Andreas Willwohl has appeared at a number of international
festivals including Salzburg, Schubertiade, Schleswig-Holstein and Bogotá; he played with
colleagues including Johannes Moser, Julian Steckel, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Isang Enders,
Marc-André Hamelin, Lauma Skride and Daniel Heide.
As a soloist he has concertized with the Berlin RSO, Korean Chamber Orchestra, the Brandenburg
Symphony, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, and the
Metamorphosen Chamber Philharmonic (Berlin), collaborating with conductors of the likes of Marek
Janowski, Patrick Lange, Christoph Poppen, Matthias Foremny, Conrad van Alphen, and Wolfgang
Emanuel Schmidt, and appearing in venues including the Berlin Philharmonie, Seoul Arts Center, Toppan
Hall in Tokyo, the Auditorium in Dijon, and Metz Congress Hall. A great number of broadcast recordings
and CD releases on the Pentatone and Audite labels offer further proof of his versatile talent.
In 2011, Andreas Willwohl was appointed viola professor at Nuremberg University of Music; he imparts
masterclasses in Europe and Asia on a regular basis. He has been a member of the Mandelring Quartet
since 2015, and in 2012 he founded the Ceres Ensemble.
After one of his appearances at the Berlin
Philharmonie, a critic wrote: “Not since the Alban Berg Quartet’s Thomas Kakuska have I found the
performance of a violist in a chamber music ensemble so utterly convincing.” Andreas Willwohl plays an
instrument by Stefan Peter Greiner with a bow by Dominique Peccatte.
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